This year our class is taking on the challenge of trying to solve some of the issues that have plagued our globe over the past twenty years. This page is designed to record our journey along the way as well as serve as a dumping ground for any information that we may come across as we begin and continue to research a possible solution.
Global Issue #1: Our group has decided to solve the issue of doping in sports and how it affects sports all around the world.
The following document will serve as a template for you to follow as you go along and begin organizing you information.
Solving the Issues of the World…One Friday at a Time
Group Names:Matthew Adams, Matthew Gulley
Global Issue #1: Doping in professional sports
Background of Issue: (who?, what?, where?, when?, why?)
WHO:
doping was used by the ancient greeks in the original olympic games
Roman gladiators used enhancing drugs to make them less vulnerable to fatigue and injury
french cyclists and lacrosse players use wine and coca leaves to prevent fatigue and hunger
the nazis used steroids on prisoners at gestapos and on Adolf Hitler himself
At least twice per year -- once early in spring training, once later at a random date.
A player's first positive test for steroids results in an automatic 50-game suspension without pay. A second positive test results in a 100-game suspension w/o pay. A third positive test results in a lifetime ban.
Football-NFL
12,000 tests are conducted during the season, including 10 randomly selected players from each team in every week of the season. Players can also be randomly selected for testing up to six times each off-season.
Tested at least 1 a year
A player's first positive test results in a 4-game unpaid suspension (players lose both their salary and a portion of their prorated signing bonus). A second positive test results in an 8-game suspension w/o pay. A third positive test results in a 12-month unpaid suspension.
Olympic sports
61% of tests are done out-of-competition
can be done 24/7/365
use blood and urine tests
penalty for usage is 2 year ban, 2nd offense is lifetime ban
Boxers and Martial arts
test random times of year
NCAA
Tests are conducted once during the regular season, and again during the postseason. There are also occasional offseason tests of Division I and D-II athletes (Division I schools have 18 football players and 8 other athletes, mostly baseball, tested during each offseason).
An athlete's first positive test leads to a 1-year suspension. A second positive test leads to a permanent NCAA ban.
There have been many athletes who have done steroids and a majority of them have not been caught.
Some of the big name ones who have been caught in professional sports are: Shawne Merriman, Jose Cansesco, Rafael Palmeiro, Ben Johnson, Floyd Landis, Barry Bonds Alex Rodriguez, Marion Johnes, and Roger Clemens
There has been estimated in the last four year 15 MILLION people in America use steroids.
There was also a study that shows one billion was spent annually on legal HGH.
WHAT: Steroids
Steroids are a type of organic compound that contains a characteristic arrangement of four cycloalkane.
Examples of steroids includes sex organs estradiol and testosterone.
The core of steroids composed of twenty carbon atoms bonded together that take the form of four fused rings.
There are many types of doping
There is blood doping, gene doping and anti doping
Blood Doping
Blood doping is the practice of boosting the number of red blood cells in the bloodstream in order to enhance athletic performance.
Because blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to the muscles, a higher concentration in the blood can improve an athlete's aerobic capacity.
Methods
The practice of boosting the number of red blood cells in the bloodstream in order to enhance athletic performance.
Anabolic steroids are taken orally or injected and athletes and other abusers take them typically in cycles of weeks and months Rather than continuously in patterns called cycles. Cycling involves taking multiple doses of steroids in a specific period of time.
WHEN: invented 1930's Germany When:
ancient roman gladiators drank herbal infusions.
1865 British journal citing expulsion of
an Australian swimmer in a canal race.
1886 first death in doping
Steroids
Man made drug
invented by Dr. Ruzicka in the early 1930's
where to buy steroids without prescription
Gym, Amazon, and eBay
type of drug tests: urine, hair, blood, sweat, or oral fluid / saliva
Urine-
Is the most common test done. Urine based test have been upheld in most courts in the last 30 years.
Blood-
most accurate test, isn't common, draw blood
hair-
is becoming popular, can gather hair anywhere in the body even if you shave your head, scientist estimate that drug use can be detected up to 12 months.
sweat-
sweat patches are attached to skin to collect skin over a period of time.
oral/saliva-
swab gum/ spit in tube, can only detect use of drug 1-2 hours of since drug use.
WHERE:
WHY:
HOW:
Costs: human and/or financial cost?
Symptoms
The effects of using steroids are:
They can weaken the immune system
They can cause liver damage or cancer
They can permanently stop bones from growing in teenagers
For men they can cause:
Baldness
Development of Breast
Painful Erections
Shrinkage of Testicles
Loss of function of Testicles
For Women
growth of facial and body hair
deepened voice
breast reduction
enlarged clitoris
Previous Efforts Put Into Place to Help Resolve Issue:
Reasons why previous efforts to help resolve issue have failed:
Areas of concern on reaching your desired solution to the global issue:
YOUR PLAN OF ACTION! (for this section, you will need to provide the most detail as you lay a step-by-step plan on how your group will go about tackling this issue. It is important that you take a look at all the information you have researched and studied and use that information to develop a true, realistic and effective plan of action. The plan needs to include funding, people involved, time length of project, materials needed, etc…)
Global Issue #1: Our group has decided to solve the issue of doping in sports and how it affects sports all around the world.
The following document will serve as a template for you to follow as you go along and begin organizing you information.
Solving the Issues of the World…One Friday at a Time
Group Names:Matthew Adams, Matthew Gulley
Global Issue #1: Doping in professional sports
Background of Issue: (who?, what?, where?, when?, why?)
WHO:
- doping was used by the ancient greeks in the original olympic games
- Roman gladiators used enhancing drugs to make them less vulnerable to fatigue and injury
- french cyclists and lacrosse players use wine and coca leaves to prevent fatigue and hunger
- the nazis used steroids on prisoners at gestapos and on Adolf Hitler himself
- _http://sportsanddrugs.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=002366__ __http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/steroids-in-sports__
What Sports Are doing.Baseball-MLB
- At least twice per year -- once early in spring training, once later at a random date.
- A player's first positive test for steroids results in an automatic 50-game suspension without pay. A second positive test results in a 100-game suspension w/o pay. A third positive test results in a lifetime ban.
Football-NFLOlympic sports
Boxers and Martial arts
NCAA
There have been many athletes who have done steroids and a majority of them have not been caught.
Some of the big name ones who have been caught in professional sports are:
Shawne Merriman, Jose Cansesco, Rafael Palmeiro, Ben Johnson, Floyd Landis, Barry Bonds Alex Rodriguez, Marion Johnes, and Roger Clemens
There has been estimated in the last four year 15 MILLION people in America use steroids.
There was also a study that shows one billion was spent annually on legal HGH.
WHAT:
Steroids
Blood Doping
Methods
WHEN:
invented 1930's Germany
When:
WHERE:
WHY:
HOW:
Costs: human and/or financial cost?
- Symptoms
The effects of using steroids are:Previous Efforts Put Into Place to Help Resolve Issue:
Reasons why previous efforts to help resolve issue have failed:
Areas of concern on reaching your desired solution to the global issue:
YOUR PLAN OF ACTION! (for this section, you will need to provide the most detail as you lay a step-by-step plan on how your group will go about tackling this issue. It is important that you take a look at all the information you have researched and studied and use that information to develop a true, realistic and effective plan of action. The plan needs to include funding, people involved, time length of project, materials needed, etc…)